The following post is from my Holland & Knight colleague Anthony Fuga.  Anthony regularly works with me defending retailers and their supply chains against patent infringement demands, and he is a period contributor to the Retail Patent Litigation Blog.  Also, please note that one of the articles Anthony discusses references RPX.  In the interest

The following is a post by my colleague Anthony J. Fuga.  Anthony and I regularly work together defending retailers against patent trolls.

MarketWatch’s recent blog post titled “Why retailers became a top target of patent trolls” contained a good, albeit short, rundown of some of the difficulties retailers are facing.  Unfortunately, much of the

Patent trolls, and patent plaintiffs generally, were active on Wednesday. April 23.  184 cases were filed on Wednesday, by numerous plaintiffs, including Signal IP, various Joao Bock entities, Interface IP, PanTaurus, Olivistar, TQP Development, eDekka, and c4cast.  Of course, it could just be a bizarre coincidence, but as Dennis Crouch points out at Patently-O,

The Main Street Patent Coalition has formed as a group of trade associations representing main street-type businesses has come together to give voice the epidemic of patent trolls targeting retailers and other Main Street businesses and to push Congress for necessary reforms.  The Coalition includes key retail trade associations including: